Puzzle 1
Starter clue: F = E
PZFPLVFZHNAUVFGUIHVUIFRIHAPLAHQXNFUGVUIHQRUBFI,HOEVUIFIFQLHOAFXRUOPZFRILOALRQFPZHPILCZPVHWFNLPNUBOVLCZP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 55
6 cryptograms to solve with a pencil. Each letter of the quote has been swapped for another letter, and the same swap holds all the way through.
20 pt ciphertext — the size a newspaper puzzle page never gives you. 26 pt ciphertext with wide letter spacing and room to write. Both sizes print on US Letter with the answer key on its own page.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: G = O
FDRBASNYUSGBGKFEFGENYDNFNMGATZQUQUNNUSBGSAVNGYDIU[EGTDMV]DNDTTNYDENGYDIUNYURFEVGKSGZFJFGAVEARQUSVDVMUYDIU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: S = E
QBSXYINHWQPIGKIAQBSPGQSYPIYVBPWBKSSOJRJYOSQJFYIJNJYSNPYSWQCDNSXSGNSGQIGQBSKJASQDJGNAYSSNIRIAIHYWIRRSYWS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = E
EFGYCWKIGYXQICLYG,NFGDQQKIOANWAAQXLWNG;GRAGNFGTELRRMWRRQYGCTQYG,WYOYVLNLGKAWXBLMLXGLYWXQYNGIVNLCRGANBODDRG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Y = E
USZYGGSUUYYQGOSPYGSKJRYUOZWBAIJYGGYQKISUSKJIYSIZYFGOCBG,OCFOUSNSJOCWYUQSJDFKGYDFUPYIJSASOYQPWZFNZYGGUYGG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: A = E
WQAVDWNXBZVDZTDWYAXDNBWYFZBDNXONBEAXBWCYATZVEAZEYAMJZMZGYOBEAXOUAWVBDZKADJAVWXOXZDCZVADJAFBAYSABDZOAWDJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Solver's cheat sheet
- Most common letters
- E T A O I N S H R D L U
- Most common 1-letter words
- A I
- Most common 2-letter words
- OF TO IN IT IS BE AS AT SO WE HE BY OR ON DO IF ME MY UP AN GO NO US AM
- Most common 3-letter words
- THE AND FOR ARE BUT NOT YOU ALL ANY CAN HER WAS ONE OUR OUT DAY GET HAS HIM HIS HOW MAN NEW NOW OLD SEE TWO WAY WHO BOY DID ITS LET PUT SAY SHE TOO USE
- Common double letters
- LL EE SS OO TT FF RR NN PP CC
- Common word endings
- -ING -ION -ENT -TION -LY -ED -ER -EST
- After an apostrophe
- T (don't) S (it's) RE (we're) VE (I've) LL (we'll) D (I'd)
Want this on its own sheet? Print the letter frequency chart.
Show the answer key (6 solutions)
- “The time has come for a more practical use of moral power, and more reliance upon the principle that right makes its own might.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1923, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=C B=W C=G D=Y E=D F=E G=F H=A I=R J=X K=J L=I M=V N=S O=N P=T Q=L R=P S=B T=Q U=O V=M W=K X=U Y=Z Z=H
- “I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.”— Michel de Montaigne, 1588, Essays, Book III, Chap. XIII. Of Experience (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=F C=J D=A E=N F=I G=O H=C I=V J=G K=P L=K M=W N=T O=Q P=X Q=B R=M S=R T=L U=E V=S W=Z X=Y Y=H Z=D
- “The productions of the interior which seek a market abroad are directly dependent on the safety and freedom of our commerce.”— James K. Polk, 1845, First Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=F B=H C=L D=Y E=G F=B G=N H=U I=O J=A K=S L=Q M=Z N=D O=K P=I Q=T R=M S=E T=J U=V V=W W=C X=P Y=R Z=X
- “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”— Edmund Burke, 1770, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, Vol. I. p. 526 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=R C=B D=G E=W F=H G=E H=J I=M J=K K=D L=I M=F N=T O=U P=Q Q=O R=L S=Z T=Y U=X V=P W=A X=C Y=N Z=V
- “No lesson needs to be so urgently impressed upon our people as this, that no worthy end or cause can be promoted by lawlessness.”— Benjamin Harrison, 1892, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=M B=I C=H D=C E=K F=A G=S H=Q I=P J=R K=U L=X M=V N=W O=T P=B Q=D R=G S=O T=F U=N V=Z W=Y X=J Y=E Z=L
- “A certain sort of talent is almost indispensable for people who would spend years together and not bore themselves to death.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=E B=S C=B D=T E=P F=M G=U H=Q I=K J=H K=G L=J M=W N=I O=D P=X Q=C R=Z S=V T=F U=Y V=R W=A X=N Y=L Z=O